I believe JRuby is doing the 1st one, which makes sense in my opinion. If possible we should prefer platform == “ironruby”, (or .net, do we need to differentiate .net and mono?), but accept others.
JD From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Shri Borde Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:02 AM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby version of existing gems This brings a question to mind - what should the general approach be for porting existing gems to IronRuby? There could be two possible approaches: 1. Create a gem with the same name (“win32console” in this case), and specify platform==”ironruby”. That way, dependent gems do not need to be updated, and users have to remember just one name. IronRuby will use the version with platform==”ironruby”, and MRI will use the one with platform==”mswin32”. So there should not be any clashes even if you use MRI and IronRuby on the same machine. 2. Create a new gem like iron-term-ansicolor. Any pro or cons to the two? What should the recommendation be in general? From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Will Green Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:47 AM To: ironruby-core Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] iron-term-ansicolor 0.0.2 Released I released iron-term-ansicolor 0.0.3 last night after testing the gem install locally first. Please let me know if you still have trouble installing it from Rubygems.org. Also, I've submitted a patch to RSpec to use iron-term-ansicolor if it can, the same way it tries to use win32console under MRI. -- Will Green http://hotgazpacho.org/
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